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Transform (UK) Creates Drug Policy Timeline
From Transform:
Transform have produced a historical timeline, presented in tabular format, tracing the history of drug policy from 1800, to the present day. We have included the key legistlative and cultural events from the past 200 years that have brought us to the current point in policy development â illuminating the development of the âdrug warâ and the more recent emergence of the reform movement. The timeline focuses on UK policy but also includes International developments at UN level, in the US and around the world.
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Drug users are terrorists?
Iâm inspired to write this post after reading this. The author acknowledges two solutions to breaking the connection between opium and terrorism: âdecriminalization of drugs or much more aggressive policingâ.
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A Failure Cake with Poison Icing
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- With profits from this spring's record opium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities say they are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge: spraying poppy fields with herbicide.
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From the Maras to the Zetas
UPDATE: Check out Phil's book review of De los Maras a los Zetas here.
Despite the daily toll of arrests and busts in the United States, America's drug war is waged largely in other countries. Mexico, for example, is likely to see more police killed in a bad weekend than the US will see in an entire year. And in Colombia, the drug war is now part of a messy civil war/war on drugs/war on terrorism with casualtiesâpolice, soldiers, guerrillas, paramilitaries, civiliansâon a daily basis.
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sumaiyya says let our kids go
they bring the drugs to the neighborhoods , then brainwash the young that theyNEED consumer items, they are taught by the old heads how to deal, they get caught up in money and violence and then get sent to prison for life so they can exploit theit kids labor for their industries in private and government prisons, with those young slave muscles, so up in arms about abu grab ? what about stock in these private prisons? this is evil.
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